Anchor block



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Patented July 5, 1927.

tllTED STATES GEORGE F. A. OCI-IS, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

ANCHOR BLOCK.

Application led October 5, 1926.

rlhe object of the invention is to provide a rail anchoring means adapted for use with natural or manufactured ties, to be used as an insert in the tie to receive the rail fasteners; to provide an insert comprising complemental elements and a simple locking device engaging said elements when seated and covered by the rail when mounted, so that the locking device and the insert or anchor block may be effectively held in place, the anchor block holding the rail and the latter retaining the locking means; and to provide a construction wherein the locking means may be readily withdrawn when the rail is removed.

`With this object in view, the invention consists in a construction .and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a side elevational view of a portion of a manufactured tie, broken away in the region of the anchor block, the latter being shown mounted in operative position. Y

Figure 2 is a sectional view On the plane indicated by the line 2 2 of Figure l.

While adaptable for use with any particular form of tie, the invention is designed 30 especially as a modification of the anchor block shown in Letters Patent No, 1,600,129,

dated September 14C, 1926, being illustrated `in connection with a tie of lamina construction such as is shown in said patent. The anchor block 11 comprises the complemental sections 11"L .and 11", each consisting of a plurality of laminae unitedby means of rivets 12. Each section is formed with sockets for the reception of spikes 13, as shown in the patent referred to.

The anchor block sections constitute inserts set in the tie, so that, when mounted, their upper faces may be Hush with the upper face of the cap plate 14 of the tie, the end .and bottom walls of the pocket in which the sections are received being defined by a plate 15 secured to the cap plate 14 by rivets 16, the cap plate being punched to provide an opening to theanehor block receiving pocket from the top face of the tie. The length of this punched opening in the cap plate, however, is less than the length of the pocket, so as to provide tongues 17 which overhang the remote ends of the two sections of t-he anchor block and engage the shoulders 18 formed at those ends. In mount- Hte Serial No. 139,647.

ing the sections of the .anchor block, therefore, they are set in the pocket, resting on the plate 15, their facing edges close together, and are then moved away from each other toward the end walls of the pockets when the shoulders 18 engage under Vthe tongues 17.

The facing ends of the sections 11'a and 11b of the anchor block or insert are formed on converging lines corresponding with the tapering shape of the locking wedge 19 which is inserted between them andV when driven down into contact with the plate 15, firmly holds them in engagement with the end walls of the pockets. The upper end of the locking wedge, when seated, lies Hush with the top faces of the two sections and the seating of the rail 20 and attachment of the spikes 13 prevent recession of the lock since the base of the rail, spanning the two sections of the block, covers the wedge lock at the upper end.

To provide for the removal of ythe two sections of the anchor block, when necessary, the wedge lock is provided in one side edge wit-h a recess 22 and one of the sections of the anchor block, such as the section 11b, is also provided with a recess 23 in communication with the recess 22 when the locking wedge is seated. The recess 23 is formed by punching certain of the intermediate laminae of the anchor block sections and when the rail has been removed, a tool may be seated in the recess 23 and its nose engaged in the recess of the wedge lock, thus permitting the latter to be pried up and thereby withdrawn, when the two sections Of the anchor block may be removed from the pocket after withdrawing the shoulders 18 from engagement with the tongue 17.

The invention having been described, what is claimed as new and useful is:

1. In combination with a tie, an anchor block consisting of complemental sections seated in a pocket formed in the upper face of the tie, the remote ends of said sections having an interlocking engagement with the tie, and a rail-retained locking member engaging said' sections and consisting of a wedge-shaped member .inserted between said sections, the latter on their adjacent ends being formed on converging lines corresponding to 'said wedge-shaped member.

2. In combination with a tie, an anchor block consisting of complemental sections seated in a pocket formed in the upper face of tive tie, the remote enne ei" smid sections having :in .interlocking engage-ment with the tie, and :i rail-renamed iocking member engaging said sections and consisting, of .a Wedge'haped ineinbei` insei'teci between said sections, the latter on their adjacent ends being formed on converging lines correspending to( said Wedge-Shaped member, one

oi said sections being formed with a tooli'eeei'ving recess and the Wedge-shaped 1ne1nbei having a lateral recess communicating with the recess insaid .section and adapted for the reception of the nose of a prying tool.

In testimony whereof he a'xes his signature.

GEORGE F. A. OCHS. 

